Contradicting President Obamas assertion, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said this morning on This Week that the president does not have the authority to order a military strike on Syria without Congressional approval.

I dont think he has the authority, Cruz told ABCs George Stephanopoulos.

It would be contrary to the Constitution, he added later, when Stephanopoulos asked him if acting without Congressional approval would be an impeachable offense, as some republicans have suggested.

President Obama said last month that while he was in favor of a military strike on Syria and believed he could order one without Congressional authorization, he would seek the approval of Congress before he ordered military strikes against the Middle Eastern nation for its alleged use of chemical weapons last month that the United States says killed close to 1,500 people, including more than 400 children.

The president will address the American people Tuesday night in a nationally televised addressed. The day before, hell sit down for interviews with the countrys five major networks and PBS.

An unofficial tally by ABC News suggest that a resolution to strike Syria would fail in the House of Representatives and a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans opposed a unilateral U.S strike on Syria.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldnt make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

He doesn’t have the authority to do a lot of things, but that hasn’t stopped him, he will do what he wants, when he wants, because NO ONE is going to stop him, not dems, not republicans, not “we the people”, dems don’t care, repubs are sitting on their hands looking the other way and “we the people” are not being heard, our representatives and this administration do not care what “we the people” want.

If he had ordered the strike, before saying he was going to Congress, and citing the War Powers Act..there would have been a little dust-up over his authority to do so, but it would have blown over in a few days. Now, by asking Congress to approve it, and assuming Congress refuses, to then go ahead would be in effect inviting impeachment.

Good grief. For decades, we listened to the Democrats make fun of “The Domino Theory”. Now, the Democrats want us to think they believe in a domino theory for the Middle East? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Put some syrup on that theory Democrats, and eat it!

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posted on 09/08/2013 8:37:42 AM PDT
by blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")

Makes you wonder why the lackeys in the federal government are so afraid of this POSOTUS. Maybe it has to do with the fact that almost ALL of the politcians in the federal government are in bed with the people who pull obama’s strings. We’re way past the point of pitchforks and torches.

Now, by asking Congress to approve it, and assuming Congress refuses, to then go ahead would be in effect inviting impeachment. Maybe that's what he wants..

Could be. The media would lionize him as a martyr to the big bad, puritanical, witch-hunting, Limbaugh listening Republicans. It would be the only way I can think of to play the race card on the issue of Syria.

With Obama it is always about his ego and how he can look better than his political rivals. He doesn't care about the country or is working to destroy is; probably both.

I love Ted. I was alittle concerned this AM watching this though, as Ted stated emphatically that Assad did the gassing. I thought there was a lot of evidence that the rebels did it and, at the least, none of us know the truth.

If he had ordered the strike, before saying he was going to Congress, and citing the War Powers Act..there would have been a little dust-up over his authority to do so, but it would have blown over in a few days. Now, by asking Congress to approve it, and assuming Congress refuses, to then go ahead would be in effect inviting impeachment.

Maybe that's what he wants..

You may have a point there. Maybe he does want to get Impeached and play the race card again so he gets a race war. I know that is a stretch of thought. We may not even have a Country after he starts WWIII.

I dont think he has the authority, Cruz told ABCs George Stephanopoulos.
It would be contrary to the Constitution,

Article I of the Constitution unequivocally gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare War.

The president can defend against an actual or imminent enemy attack without waiting for Congress. In that case, a state of war would already exist independent of any US action. But the Assad regime has not attacked the US and does not seem likely to do so in the near future.

Obama wrote in 2007 that The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

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posted on 09/08/2013 9:34:09 AM PDT
by Marguerite
( When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)

Judge Napolitano laid it out on FOX the other day. It takes an actual attack on us, an imminent attack on us, an attack on an ally that we have treaty/agreement with, or another nation under hostile attack that asks our assistance. None of the four tests have been fulfilled.

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posted on 09/08/2013 9:36:17 AM PDT
by trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)

Getting the Congress approval is a Republican thing. Bush 41 did for the Gulf War AND Bush 43 did for Afghanistan AND Iraq. Clinton didn’t for Kosovo and Obama didn’t for Libya. Republicans follow the Constitution, Democrats do NOT.

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posted on 09/08/2013 9:39:03 AM PDT
by Marguerite
( When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)

POSOTUS (I like it!) POSOTUS has carte blanche. “We the people” are screwed (see my tagline) - no pitchforks, no torches, no tar, no feathers, no protests, no revolution, the country is going down the drain and there isn’t anything we can do about it because no one will listen to us. I betcha if everyone in the US found their way to the WH, millions and millions of people in the street, I bet the media would say there were a couple hundred people out there, even the media is against us and our country. I have never ever seen anything like this, ever. It is absolutely unnerving.

to then go ahead would be in effect inviting impeachment. Maybe that's what he wants..

Who's going to impeach him? Not the dems, not the republicans and as for "we the people" no one cares what we want. IRS out of control, NSA out of control, Fast & Furious, Benghazi, etc etc etc etc. He should have been thrown out of office by now but with the help of dems and repubs AND the press, the asshat in chief is till there, NO ONE is going to start impeachment proceedings, no one dares start impeachment proceedings if they know what's good for them, HUSSEIN has his criminal posse out there bribing, intimidating, threatening, killing, we are now a dictatorship and a lot of people still don't see it.

Add “-—Obama didn’t for Libya-—” to the list of particulars on the list of impeachable actions that will be required to start Obamuzzie’s impeachment. Qdaffy hadn’t attacked the US and the Kenyan didn’t bother to claim he did. As noted above Congress must decide when to start a war without provocation.

You would think that in our country, which has existed more than 200 years, the Constitutional issue of whether or not a President can invade another country without the consent of the people (Congress) would’ve been resolved by now....

If he goes to war without both houses of congress approving it, the Republicans have everything to gain by impeaching him for that reason alone. The Dems are quaking in their boots because of this, freaking out. They know he’s marking them for their political demise. The media couldn’t do anything to protect him or his supporters.

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